# Nico (given name)

Nico is a unisex given name. It is a short form of Nicholas, Nicolas, Nicola, Nicole, Dominic and others. In Italian it may also be short for Domenico, Nicolò and for Nicodemo. Notable people with the name include:
* Nico (1938–1988), born Christa Päffgen, singer with The Velvet Underground
* Nico (Romanian singer) (born 1970)
* Nico Aaltonen (born 1988), Finnish ice hockey player
* Nico Abegglen (born 1990), Swiss footballer
* Nico Antonitsch (born 1991), Austrian footballer
* Nico Archambault (born 1984), Canadian dancer and choreographer
* Nico Assumpção (1954–2001), Brazilian bass player
* Nico Baleani (born 1992), Spanish footballer
* Nico Baracchi (1957–2015), Swiss bobsledder
* Nico Berg (born 1973), Canadian soccer player
* Nico Bettge (born 1980), German slalom canoeist
* Nico Beyer (born 1964), German film director and producer
* Nico Binst (born 1992), Belgian footballer
* Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017), Dutch and American physicist and Nobel laureate
* Nico Bodonczy (born 1955), Chilean-American soccer player
* Nico Boje (born 1973), South African cricketer
* Nico H.J. van den Boogaard (1938–1982), Dutch medievalist scholar
* Nico Bouvy (1892–1957), Dutch footballer
* Nico Braun (born 1950), Luxembourgian footballer
* Nico de Bree (1944–2016), Dutch football goalkeeper
* Nico van Breemen (born 1942), Dutch soil scientist
* Nico Broekhuysen (1876–1958), Dutch teacher and inventor of korfball
* Nico Brüngger (born 1988), Swiss cyclist
* Nico Burchert (born 1987), German footballer
* Nico van der Burgt (born 1983), Dutch paratriathlete
* Nico Buwalda (1890–1970), Dutch footballer
* Nico Carstens (1926–2016), South African accordionist and songwriter
* Nico Casavecchia (born 1961), Argentine director
* Nico Castel (1931–2015), Multinational operatic tenor
* Nico Claesen (born 1962), Belgian footballer
* Nico Colaluca (born 1986), American soccer player
* Nico Collard (born 1970s), American music director, producer, and guitarist
* Nico Collins (born 1999), American football player
* Nico Covatti (born 1988), Argentine motorcycle speedway rider
* Nico Däbritz (born 1971), German footballer
* Nico de Boinville (born 1989), English jockey
* Nico F. Declercq (born 1975), Belgian physicist and mechanical engineer
* Nico Delle Karth (born 1984), Austrian sailor
* Nico Denz (born 1994), German cyclist
* Nico Dewalque (born 1945), Belgian footballer
* Nico Diederichs (1903–1978), South African State President
* Nico Dijkshoorn (born 1960), Dutch author, columnist, and musician
* Nico Dostal (1895–1981), Austrian operetta and film music composer
* Nico Drost (born 1980), Dutch politician
* Nico Eekman (1889–1973), Belgian figurative painter
* Nico Elorde (born 1991), Filipino basketball player
* Nico Elvedi (born 1996), Swiss footballer
* Nico Emonds (born 1961), Belgian cyclist
* Nico Empen (born 1996), German footballer
* Nico Esterhuyse (born 1984), Namibian rugby player
* Nico Evers-Swindell (born 1979), New Zealand actor
* Nico Falah (born 1995), American football player
* Nico Fidenco (1933–2022), Italian singer
* Nico Freriks (born 1981), Dutch volleyball player
* Nico Frijda (1927–2015), Dutch psychologist
* Nico Frommer (born 1978), German footballer
* Nico Frutos (born 1981), Argentine footballer
* Nico van Gageldonk (1913–1995), Dutch cyclist
* Nico Gaitán (born 1988), Argentine footballer
* Nico Gardener (1906–1989), British bridge player
* Nico González (footballer, born 1988), Spanish footballer
* Nico Gorzel (born 1998), German footballer
* Nico Granatowski (born 1991), German footballer
* Nico Gunzburg (1882–1984), Belgian lawyer and criminologist
* Nico Gutjahr (born 1993), German footballer
* Nico de Haas (1907–1995), Dutch photographer and currency designer
* Nico Habermann (1932–1993), Dutch computer scientist
* Nico Hambro (1861–1926), Norwegian female politician (Nicoline)
* Nico Hammann (born 1988), German footballer
* Nico Hischier (born 1999), Swiss ice hockey player
* Nico Hülkenberg (born 1987), German Formula One driver
* Nico Jalink (born 1964), Dutch football player
* Nico Kasanda (1939–1985), Congo guitarist and composer
* Nico Landeweerd (born 1954), Dutch water polo player
* Nico Mannion (born 2001), Italian-American basketball player
* Nico Mbarga (1950–1997), Nigerian musician
* Nico Mirallegro (born 1991), British actor
* Nico Motchebon (born 1969), German runner
* Nico Muhly (born 1981), American contemporary classical composer
* Nico Naldini (1929–2020), Italian novelist, poet, and film director
* Nico Nyberg (born 1993), Finnish ice hockey player
* Nico Onkenhout (1918–1989), Dutch sculptor
* Nico Pulzetti (born 1984), Italian footballer
* Nico Pepe (1917–1987), Italian film actor
* Nico Perrone (born 1935), Italian journalist
* Nico Rosberg (born 1985), German-Finnish former Formula One driver and 2016 Formula One World Champion
* Nico Schulz (born 1993), German footballer
* Nico Siragusa (born 1994), American football player
* Nico Tortorella (born 1988), American actor
* Nico Vaesen (born 1969), Belgian footballer
* Nico Vascellari (born 1976) Italian artist and musician
* Nico Verhoeven (born 1961), Dutch cyclist

## Nicknames

* Klaus Peter Cadsky (1937–2011), Swiss cartoonist
* Antonio Mariño Souto (born 1935), Cuban painter, known as Ñico
* Antônio Azambuja Nunes (born 1941), Brazilian footballer
* Honório de Freitas Guimarães (1902–1968), member of the Brazilian Communist Party

## Fictional characters

* Nico Blake, female character from the British soap opera Hollyoaks
* Nico Collard, a main character in the Broken Sword series
* Nico di Angelo, a son of Hades in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan
* Nico von Lahnstein, female character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
* Nico Minoru, a comic character who briefly went by the moniker "Sister Grimm" in Runaways
* Nico Reilly, a lead character in the TV series Lipstick Jungle
* Nico Robin, a manga character from One Piece
* Nicolas "Nico" M. Sinag, a main character in the TV series Dirty Linen
* Nicolas "Nico" Navarro, a character in Soy Luna
* Nico Saiba, a character in the TV series Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
* Nico Slater, a character in the TV series Ugly Betty
* Nico Toscani, character in Above the Law
* Nico Kanna, a character of Puella Magi Kazumi Magica, a spinoff manga of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
* Nico Yazawa, a character in the mixed media project Love Live! School Idol Project
* Nico, a bunny character from Carl the Collector
* Nico, a yellow canary in the film Rio and its sequel Rio 2
* Nico Kim, an attending orthopedic surgeon in Grey's Anatomy
* NiCO, a character in the Dead or Alive video game series
* Niko Bellic, a character in the Grand Theft Auto video game series